O's Optimist

Go O's, Yankees Suck.

[Zach Bollinger @zachbollinger18]

The league realizing they let the Birds get hot.

[Freddie @FreddieTheOsFan]

Colton Cowser

[O's Optimist @OsOptimist]

Colton Cowser let's goooo 🐂🐂🐂

[Nyanasaur @Nyanasaur]

This is quickly becoming one of the worst top 10 of any draft in history

[Jason Moore @mooformoore5]

Hard work pays off.
The Blaze turnaround is real.

Blaze Alexander
April: .137/.228/.176 (.405 OPS, 21 wRC+)
May: .365/.403/.508 (.911 OPS, 155 wRC+)
#Birdland

[Jake Rill @JakeDRill]

Orioles' win probability (per Baseball Savant) after...

Samuel Basallo's K to open bottom of 9th: 0.7%
Coby Mayo's HBP: 1.8%
Leody Taveras' RBI triple: 5.5%
Jackson Holliday's RBI single: 11.2%
Colton Cowser's double: 29.8%
Taylor Ward's walk: 34%
Gunnar Henderson's walk: 54.5%
Adley Rutschman's walk: 83.7%
Pete Alonso's single: 100%

[Jake Rill @JakeDRill]

The Orioles are 7-1 in Brandon Young's 8 starts this year.

His past 2 outings came before Colton Cowser's walk-off home run on Sunday (5-3 over DET) and Pete Alonso's walk-off RBI single today (6-5 over TOR).

"Man, that was crazy. That was awesome," Young said.

[Alden González @Alden_Gonzalez]

The Union’s response to MLB’s cap proposal …

[maybe: julia @jvIias]

Pete Alonso gold glove

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Orioles sweep the AL-leading Rays!

[Annie Klaff @annieklaff]

Blaze Alexander entered tonight w/ a .281 xBA (85th percentile) and avg EV of 92 mph (89th)

Alexander went 6-for-13 w/ 8 RBI and 5 hard-hit balls in the Rays series

A lot of scrutiny on analytics right now, but prime example of results bound to happen w/ those kinds of metrics

[Zach Bollinger @zachbollinger18]

Trey Gibson in his Camden Yards debut:

5.2 IP
1 R
6 H
4 BB
1 K

What a gutsy performance.

[Baseball Is Dead @baseballisdead_]

Samuel Basallo feels like the most underappreciated young star in baseball.

It’s probably because he’s relegated to DH duty a lot with Adley Rutschman there, but a 128 wRC+ at 21 is no joke. He’s even broke even behind the plate with 0 DRS.

[Jacob Calvin Meyer @jcalvinmeyer]

Samuel Basallo since May 5:

.327 BA
.356 OBP
.600 SLG
.956 OPS

A reminder: He’s only 21.

[Birdland Metrics @birdlandmetrics]

From April 20th to May 17th:

Samuel Basallo carried a .384 BA over a 20-game stretch (77 PAs).

At just 21 years, 281 days old, he became only the 7th Orioles player ever to post a .384+ BA over a 20-game span at that age or younger.

The rest of the players in this elite club:

Brooks Robinson
Eddie Murray
Manny Machado
Vern Stephens
Bob Hale
Dick Kokos

There are two HOFers and 4 perennial All-Stars on this list

[MLB @MLB]

From no hits to walk-off winners 🤯

Throwback to last season when the Orioles were down to their final out while getting no-hit by Yoshinobu Yamamoto and mounted one of the most improbable comebacks ever 😮

[O's Optimist @OsOptimist]

@BAL_Os_funk

[O's Optimist @OsOptimist]

its obviously albert belle

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Too many great ones to choose from 🤣

[Barstool Are Dee Tee @editti22]

Really like Nunez and what he brings

[O's Optimist @OsOptimist]

@PaulValleIII

[Zach Bollinger @zachbollinger18]

Samuel Basallo’s last 28 games:

- 31 Hits (.320 avg)
- 5 HRs
- 16 RBIs
- 14 runs
- .932 OPS

At 21 years old Samuel Basallo is a star